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HoloDust on 29 October 2012
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JEMC said:
HoloDust said:

It's probably 4core/8thread SB CPU (though it might be EP variant with 8 physical cores). As for 8-core FX CPUs, there are versions with 95W TDP, so that seems plausible - guess we'll finally see well optimized 8-core code after all ;). And GPU performance does seem to be in line with for a long time rumoured 78xx performance...

As far as I know, the lowest 8 core FX chip is the FX-8120 and is rated at 125W.

Anyway, the difference in between those CPU is brutal, that's the strange thing. Going from a weak one to a stronger one is understable and doesn't affect the development of the games, but the other way around is strange. Also both CPUs use a different architecture, making this change more strange.

Just look at this comparison between the lowest spec'ed 4 core Sandy Bridge-E i7-3820 and the best of the FX chips, the 8 core FX-8350. The intel chip destroys the AMD one (sadly). And then add that the i7-3820 uses 160W at load while the FX-8350 uses 195W (the numbers are for the whole system).

As I said, it's a bit odd.

Hm, isn't FX-8100 rated at 95W? But yeah, they are quite weaker in current games vs Intel's CPUs - than again, when you look at highly threaded applications, they pretty much hold their own, plus they are much cheaper, so guess dev teams will probably have to learn how to highly optimize their code for 8 cores. Though, it would be nice to see Intel Inside, but I doubt that anyone can afford that in a console.